Another reader wrote: "If 25 families have turned it down it must be bad. I used to work 300ft below that estate & subsidence is pretty bad."

Other readers were more annoyed with the council than the families.

An aggravated Facebook user said: "Give it to a homeless person! Honestly the housing system is a joke. If you can't afford to house yourself then you shouldn't be able to pick and choose where you are offered!"

And another agreed: "Why sell it?! Just keep offering it! Some families understand they are desperate and would just accept it. Don't take from social housing. Isn't enough as there is!"

A lot of readers pitched in to say they would never have turned down this house. Some even shared their own experiences.